Lab rats at Microsoft Research and the University of Michigan have teamed up to create prototypes for virtual machine-based rootkits that significantly push the envelope for hiding malware and that can maintain control of a target operating system. The proof-of-concept rootkit, called SubVirt, exploits known security flaws and drops a VMM (virtual machine monitor) underneath a Windows or Linux installation. Once the target operating system is hoisted into a virtual machine, the rootkit becomes impossible to detect because its state cannot be accessed by security software running in the target system.

SGI is not very willing to communicate about any strategic changes it is plannign to make in their product line up. "Thankfully, we happen to know a couple of SGI's largest customers - the kind of folks who actually receive information from the graphics beast. In order to help out the rest of you poor, informationless sods, we're going to don SGI's marketing cap for the moment and get out the good word to customers large and small. Here's where SGI is heading according to the insiders."

"Former Soviet Union is a term that often makes people think of a somehow original concept of freedom and democracy. You can observe some heritage looking at the facts of today's Belarus and Turkmenistan. Anyway, even there, people always have had the will to express their ideas and opinions. Think, for instance, of the samizdat, or of the dissidents. How could native geeks and computer scientists/engineers miss the opportunity to contribute to the free software movement as another expression of freedom and democracy? In this article, hopefully the first of a short series, I will try to outline the rise and growth of free software in the former USSR by interviewing some of the key individuals."

ReactOS developer Ged Murphy posts on ReactOS's blog website: "Ok, well I’m gonna start blogging, considering that’s what we set this thing up for. This, my first ReactOS blog, will attempt to shed some light on the audit process answering the many questions which commonly appear on IRC. Firstly, why has the audit progress bar been stuck on 15% for the past few weeks?"

"Anyone who has been following the tech headlines lately has had no choice but to find themselves immersed in news and speculation about the ultramobile PCs. After weeks of rampant speculation about the Origami Project and news streaming in from an unusually exciting Cebit expo, consumers have been introduced to this new form factor and have finally received some definite answers about what to expect."

"This article shows how I created a jail under FreeBSD 5. Though FreeBSD 6.0 has come out since I wrote this article, the strategy should remain the same. I'll update the article with any changes should anything be different."